[mythtv-users] Looking for clarity on MythTV, to LIRC, or not to LIRC, ir-keytable, and key mappings

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Andrew Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
>> On 06/04/2012 4:05 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> For setting up the remote in general, you could follow this:
>>>
>>> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=114124
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>> I was under the impression that the ir-keytable method was generating
>> keycodes that were outside the range that xorg could handle - that was why
>> we were still using lirc - has this been fixed in xorg?
>
> xorg still cannot handle multi-byte keycodes, but you can use
> ir-keytable to load a mapping file to map all keys into the
> single-byte space just as you do with lirc.  Instructions for this are
> covered in the link above.
>
> Eric

What happens when you have multiple programs that you wish to control
with the remote? mythbuntu-lirc-generator generates lircrc for mythtv,
mplayer, totem and others. In particular I use both mythtv and XBMC
interchangeably and with non lirc methods I get keys that don't work
in one or other program, or have the wrong mapping.

if not using lirc, is the best option to configure each program to use
consistent key mapping, rather than the lirc approach of specifying a
different mapping for each program?